PRNewswire/ Al Jazeera, the world's first global 24-hour news and currentaffairs television network, based in the Middle East, is today launching a mobile applicationcalled "Al Jazeera", which gives access to the channel's Arabic and English programs live andon-demand for all users of Symbian or Windows
Mobile phones worldwide.
Developed bymobile TV specialist Mobiclip, the "Al Jazeera" mobile application provides high quality liveviewing of the News Channel in English and Arabic as well as Video News Bulletin on demand. Theapplication runs on
Wi-Fi, 3G and Edge networks.
Phil Lawrie, Director of Global Distribution atAl Jazeera Network commented: "This is an exciting new development - the launch of aworld-class application that will facilitate the viewing of Al Jazeera's English and
Arabicchannels, and made-for-mobile VOD service, for users around the world.
The launch of Mobiclip's AlJazeera app is another initiative that helps us to meet our goal of serving our audience throughmultiple platform
technologies."
Andre Pagnac, CEO of Mobiclip Inc. adds: "Al Jazeera isone of the most prominent news networks globally and we are proud to deliver to the network thehighest standard of service and user experience. The Mobiclip application
demonstrates theperformance of our global video delivery platform.
The billing system is simple and works acrossvarious platforms; such as Symbian and Windows Mobile. Through the Mobiclip application we aremaking Al Jazeera available to millions of mobile phone users worldwide, and this in itself is amajor step in digital video distribution."